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but with china, that's a more difficult issue. i mean here's a country that is investing in a lot of american companies. their capital is usually welcome. certainly their capital is welcome when it comes to buying up our debt. i don't think the chinese is going to turn around and start selling american treasury notes because of the dispute over cyber. but if thing got rough enough and they saw a better place to put their money they might stop buying it. >> or they could dump it although the argument goes if they dump it they hurt themselves. they hurt themselves, that's right. the question is how can you raise the price. one thing the u.s. government could do raise the price is to expose these groups not wait for private companies to do it but for the government themselves to do it. because suddenly it would make doing business with trying to look to be a riskier operation. a little bit like the way the u.s. has operated with the iran sanction where the idea was to say you can do business with iran but if you do, you're taking a b
but with china, that's a more difficult issue. i mean here's a country that is investing in a lot of american companies. their capital is usually welcome. certainly their capital is welcome when it comes to buying up our debt. i don't think the chinese is going to turn around and start selling american treasury notes because of the dispute over cyber. but if thing got rough enough and they saw a better place to put their money they might stop buying it. >> or they could dump it although...
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china is confident, insertive in the south china sea in relations about moskow have cooled. all of this with a troubled economy at home and calls for a lighter footprint abroad. i'm pleased to have tom donilon back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: we are now into a second term. what do we mean by lighter footprint? >> well, if we step back on that, at the beginning of 2012, the president after a multimonth review, close consultation with the uniformed military, the joint chief, service secretaries and combatant commanders around the world put together a new defense strategy. that defense strategy had to take into account that the budget control act required the defense budget over ot next ten years to be reduced by $500 million or so, a little less than that. and which would require a 5% decrease over what were the plans. and in doing that the president asked the military to think about what the new challenges were going to be. what were the real challenges we were going to face. and that defense strategy was comprehensive. and it had various pieces to
china is confident, insertive in the south china sea in relations about moskow have cooled. all of this with a troubled economy at home and calls for a lighter footprint abroad. i'm pleased to have tom donilon back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: we are now into a second term. what do we mean by lighter footprint? >> well, if we step back on that, at the beginning of 2012, the president after a multimonth review, close consultation with the uniformed...
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china? the world's to the going to follow china even east asia won't follow china. brazil, russia, who? >> rose: none of the emerging nations. >> i don't think so. and it's possible that a brand-new pattern will emerge from this resorting of wealth and power. but the world needs leadership now. on the issue of climate, water, topsoil, population, distribution of wealth in the global economy, you can go down the list. and the only obvious candidate to provide leadership in the word is united states. now many perceive the united states as having gone through a relative decline in power. there's evidence to that effect. but it's not clear that that is a persistent pattern. it is clear that the only way the united states can play what i think its natural role is, to provide leadership to the world o i do think that people around the world still look to the united states in spite of their disappointments, in spite of their concerns, as a kind of avatar among nations and if we are to play that role, those of us who are citizens of the united states have to reclaim the int
china? the world's to the going to follow china even east asia won't follow china. brazil, russia, who? >> rose: none of the emerging nations. >> i don't think so. and it's possible that a brand-new pattern will emerge from this resorting of wealth and power. but the world needs leadership now. on the issue of climate, water, topsoil, population, distribution of wealth in the global economy, you can go down the list. and the only obvious candidate to provide leadership in the word...
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be careful. ishares is china. we'll have to get rid of mastercard because my charitable trust owns a big position in goldman sachs, i think that goes higher. and what we will add is a diversified industrial and i'm picking timken. tkr, the steel company that we visited in ohio not that long ago. all right. let's go to ian in california. ian? >> caller: hey, jim, criminal minds booyah to you. how are ya? >> i totally agree with you boo-yah right back. >> caller: are you ready for the portfolio? >> yes. >> caller: okay. "v," visa, aapl, apple, gld, gold, fb, facebook, pm phillip morris. jim, am i diversified? >> okay. phillip morris, the international version of marlboro, facebook at 28, 29, that's a good stock. let's call it an internet social media play. the gold -- you know, there's the gold standard, it's gold. visa is a financial that's known really as a paper to plastic play and apple's tech. we've got tech, tobacco, we have social media, we have gold, and we have a financial. bingo. ♪ hallelujah >> no chang
be careful. ishares is china. we'll have to get rid of mastercard because my charitable trust owns a big position in goldman sachs, i think that goes higher. and what we will add is a diversified industrial and i'm picking timken. tkr, the steel company that we visited in ohio not that long ago. all right. let's go to ian in california. ian? >> caller: hey, jim, criminal minds booyah to you. how are ya? >> i totally agree with you boo-yah right back. >> caller: are you ready...
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or panda bear certainly in china. but when you start talking about birds or smaller vertebrates it's very hard to get a country to care about them. >> rose: is there any way that they could use all those people who trade in tortoises because they have commercial value that somehow there's something -- that you could do some kind of legalization thing that would -- >> rose: well, that's a great question because that is really thinking outside the box and it's a very controversial idea to open up trade with certain species. i think it's something that has to be looked at because i think there are many methods and i think it's very important to keep an open mind, the idea of cutting off a rhino's horn with a chain saw. no one wants to do that, but that may save the rhino. and that sounds so horrific. the idea of having a legal trade -- >> we saw a bit of that in lesley's film, too, cutting off something, didn't we? >> well, we were engraving, which is a similar defacing the tortoise so they can -- >> rose: in order to be
or panda bear certainly in china. but when you start talking about birds or smaller vertebrates it's very hard to get a country to care about them. >> rose: is there any way that they could use all those people who trade in tortoises because they have commercial value that somehow there's something -- that you could do some kind of legalization thing that would -- >> rose: well, that's a great question because that is really thinking outside the box and it's a very controversial...
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conflict that the system may have create-- they have created can't survive. >> the social tension in china is enormous today. and it will force them to make changes. the changes that we expect in the west. >> do you think they will resist the changes or make them. >> they resist them by nature. >> because it's about power. >> well, chinese society and by the way, our democracies are fairly young. the chinese sort of system of government overall is a very old one. thousands of years so you don't change it quickly. you don't change if in a generation or two. and so it's a question of adapting. they're slow. if you have monopoly of power in the hands of one party, they're going to be even more resistant to change but they know, an they're very clear about this, they know that if they don't change, trouble. so they are -- >> popular revolt. >> they're going to have to address issues of protect the individual against the states. >> rose: or they will address the idea that unless they change they will not survive. >> they may have more central control than we did. they may not have elections the
conflict that the system may have create-- they have created can't survive. >> the social tension in china is enormous today. and it will force them to make changes. the changes that we expect in the west. >> do you think they will resist the changes or make them. >> they resist them by nature. >> because it's about power. >> well, chinese society and by the way, our democracies are fairly young. the chinese sort of system of government overall is a very old one....
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book argues is that in the east with a lot of shortcomings, in the east you have, and let's talk about china or singapore, you've got countries that have systems that allow them to think much longer-term, much more for the community, where capability and merit are rewarded at the expense of just, you know, pop laughity. the shortcomings are evident. lack of traparency, lk of accountability, difficulty to remove the leadership if they're not doing a good job. so some elements from both sides is really what the book argues for. that we have to learn something from the east. they have to certainly learn something from us. >> but do you have a feeling about the east that in fact unless they make political reform, unless they have more democracy, that in the end they are end up in such a terribleonflict that the system may have create-- they have created can't survive. >> the social tension in china is enormous today. and it will force them to make changes. the changes that we expect in the west. >> do you think they will resist the changes or make them. >> they resist them by nature. >> because
book argues is that in the east with a lot of shortcomings, in the east you have, and let's talk about china or singapore, you've got countries that have systems that allow them to think much longer-term, much more for the community, where capability and merit are rewarded at the expense of just, you know, pop laughity. the shortcomings are evident. lack of traparency, lk of accountability, difficulty to remove the leadership if they're not doing a good job. so some elements from both sides is...
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it will create middle class jobs and it will help bring manufacturing back from places like china. simplifying our tax code will also help the middle class because it will maket easier for small businesses to hire and grow. now we agree with the president. we should lower our corporate tax rate which is one of the highest in the world. so the companies will start bringing their money and their jobs back here from overseas. we can also help grow our economy if we have a legal immigration system that allows us to attract and assimilate the world's best and brightest. we need a responsible, permanent solution to the problem of those who are here illegally. but first we must follow through on the broken promises of the past to secure our borders and enforce our laws. helping the middle class grow will also require an educational system that gives people the skills today's jobs entail and the knowledge that tomorrow's world will require. we need to incentivize local school districts to offer more a.p. courses and more vocational and career training and we need to give all parents especi
it will create middle class jobs and it will help bring manufacturing back from places like china. simplifying our tax code will also help the middle class because it will maket easier for small businesses to hire and grow. now we agree with the president. we should lower our corporate tax rate which is one of the highest in the world. so the companies will start bringing their money and their jobs back here from overseas. we can also help grow our economy if we have a legal immigration system...